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Article #210Re: Assignment 5 bool?
From: Xylen
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 00:00
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donald johnson wrote in message <6f3irg$3n90@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>... >This is begining to bug me. The assignment states that we >should create functions that return type bool with values >of TRUE and FALSE. Well, apparently the CC compiler doesn't >know of type bool, so no problem if we create enum that >defines it, but... this might cause a conflict with a >complier that did have bool, the book implies that such a >complier would expect bool with lowercase values of true and >false (as opposed to all caps). > >The book has sort of a way around this (APPENDIX E), which >still is going to conflict with assignment specs because it >uses lowercase true and false. > >I have chosen to use a variation of Van's example in class >which used Bool with True, False. My variation uses Bool >with FALSE, TRUE - close to assignment, but not quite. > >Am I missing something here, (often likely) or was the >assignment mis-printed (possible, I suppose). > >Or... was this just an incidental part of the assignment >and any old kludge will do? -I doubt it, but worth a : ) I used the following, and it works just fine, so maybe any old Kludge will work. :) #define bool int #define false 0 #define true 1 Mary
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